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...cascaded down Frank Phillips Boulevard and rushed along the corridors of the Jane Phillips Episcopal Hospital and the Phillips Hotel. It spilled over into Frank Phillips Airport and gushed through every Phillips 66 station in town. In Bartlesville, Okla., last week, there was good reason for jubilation. Phillips Petroleum, the eighth largest U.S. oil producer, had succeeded in stopping New Yorker Carl Icahn's bid to take over the company after earlier beating back a similar attempt by Texan T. Boone Pickens. A three-month siege by corporate raiders had ended, and worries for the future were replaced by good...
...bands that have entered are The Cratchet Family, Commissioner Gordon Joey Thunder and Electrical Strom, Wired for Sound, and Jane's Parents, although The Stickmen and Mirror Image also indicated that they plan to partake in the competition...
...produces only a few of its own shows, acquiring most of them at low cost from various suppliers. The largest chunk of its schedule consists of entertainment shows purchased through a special arrangement with the British Broadcasting Corp. These BBC programs run the gamut from classy mini-series (Jane Eyre) to music specials (An Evening with Andrew Lloyd Webber) and sitcoms (The Fainthearted Feminist with Lynn Redgrave). The schedule is also filled with concerts, operas, ballets and other fine-arts fare. But the network's executives admit that they are trying to attract new viewers with shows of broader appeal...
Abraham Lincoln compared its power to the surging Mississippi River. Jane Austen found it so indispensable that she ironed it out when it was damp. Thackeray endured its "rather shabby pay," Coleridge tried in vain to join its staff, and Dickens endured its critical contempt. It accompanied the Light Brigade to the Valley of Death in the Crimea, and climbed with Edmund Hillary up Mount Everest. Although it proudly displays the royal coat of arms on its masthead, in an 1830 obituary it described the standard of conduct of King George IV as "little higher than that of animal indulgence...
Rowdy Gaines, Olympic gold medal swimmer, on his movie- acting ambitions: "I would love to be Tarzan, but it would depend on who Jane...